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The building, next to the Sima de las Palomas, has six levels, with wide corridors retractable roofs and walls that are interactive landscapes
The President of the Autonomous Community of Murcia, Ramón Luis Valcárcel, accompanied by the Minister of Culture and Tourism, Pedro Alberto Cruz, and the Mayor of Torre Pacheco, Daniel García Madrid, today placed the first stone of the Museum of Paleontology and Human Evolution the Region of Murcia, located in the municipality of Torre Pacheco.
These facilities, said the chief executive of Murcia, will offer visitors a spectacular journey through time "that will meet the first settlers of the region, and promoting scientific culture through cultural, leisure management aims to enjoy paleontological heritage found in the region.
The museum takes visitors to the world of paleontology at the hand of concepts such as geologic time, evolution, extinctions of species or origin of the Earth and life.
Also, show how is a fossil, paleontologist work and how they dug a reservoir.
The building will rise on a plot of the municipality, with a size of 12,000 square meters, located on the road to San Cayetano, and involve an investment of over six million euros (6. 545. 464) by the Community .
The Region of Murcia, Valcarcel said, is characterized "by the richness, uniqueness and character full unusually paleontological heritage, that" through this magnificent facility will be shown and shared by all citizens. "
The project has been developed by architects Federico Soriano and Dolores Palacios, and has six rooms in wide corridors, with slightly sloping floors, roofs that open and close the field of vision, and walls that form landscapes and inviting experience Touch.
Furthermore, to achieve a perfect symbiosis with the surrounding space, is designed around textures that cover the entire exterior facade, in which imitated the type of soil and vegetation of the area.
The building has a total of 2,557 meters square of exhibition space, which is distributed in six heights and allow access to all audiences, avoiding the barriers.
Fossils and audiovisual resources
The theme of the exhibition will consist of moving through geological time, showing the major milestones that have occurred throughout the history of life on Earth.
The route will connect a series of spaces that show, in a didactic way, deposits and fossil specimens representing each of the periods represented in the land of Murcia.
For direct connection to the site of the building is to emphasize the site of the Sima de las Palomas, the Cabezo Gordo de Torre Pacheco, which will have a role in the permanent exhibition.
The future museum will have a valuable collection of original fossils, spectacular views of animals and plants and audiovisual resources, made under the scripts proposed by paleontologists and will be distributed throughout the rooms of the building.
Also operate at the same time as a research center receiver fossils from paleontological interventions carried out in all fields Murcia.
Also assume the tasks of restoration and conservation, and research studies, cataloging and storage, according to objective criteria of scientific and museum.
Source: CARM
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